A collective poem by the participants of the South Africa to Zimbabwe Learning Journey hosted by Greenhouse Project, Johannesburg and Kufunda Village, Harare on 10-20 August 2011. After a day attending sustainability projects in Jhb CBD, we spent 2 days learning together at Kufunda Village, followed by 2 days in a rural community. 17 SA… [Read more…]
Wondering why I have been so quiet? Well here is one reason: I was absent for 8 weeks: preparing for, attending and recovering from a revolutionary community leadership development training in Brasil. This is why… PS the links in this article are very useful. Community is essential. It is the only thing that can save… [Read more…]
To everything, there is a season.. and as they say, ’tis the season.. So here I am, turning. My first step on Brazilian soil. A lifelong dream come true, and the purpose of being here: to realize more dreams. Not isolated individual selfish dreams, the ones that limit our futures, but simple, unanimous and miraculous dreams,… [Read more…]
At first I am troubled to see that my blog here is slowly retracting into a cobwebbed corner of the wordpress cyberspace, whilst I am living up a whole new paradigm of change back on home soil digging for the soul of South Africa. Coming across people and processes aplenty that I would love to… [Read more…]
some people have asked me: how was your trip? i went to istanbul for the world youth congress. there’s lots to share, which is still coming out in drips and drabs on representingyouth.com, but here’s my take for a glimpse of this expansive experience more personally… the heat was real. it permeated my head and… [Read more…]
These are the pre-notes I wrote in the morning and on the train the day before my speech at En Dag för Framtiden on Sunday 29 August in Stockholm, the follow up event to Rework the World where we launched the Representing Youth initiative. Both events were hosted by the Tällberg Foundation to engage in-depth… [Read more…]
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To those of you still following this blog, thank you. You may be wondering why it has been so quiet. Maybe you didn’t notice. Well, you’ll see by the last post I launched a project at the end of my YIP year in Sweden. It’s taken flight and a lot of my time, and I’ve… [Read more…]
So, the culmination of my year in Sweden is upon me.. For my “individual” project I have decided to collaborate with a team of young change-makers to co-produce a powerful youth media initiative. We will be telling the stories at the Rework the World summit on Youth, Entrepreneurship & Sustainability – from a youth perspective,… [Read more…]
Mapping the Kaospilot International Leadership Network A project by Nathan Daniel Heller On internship from the International Youth Initiative Program (YIP) in Sweden April 2010 DEBRIEF Location: Kaospilot International, Mejlgade 35, Århus, Denmark Date: 12-30 April 2010 Need: The Kaospilot program has an extensive reach. There are multiple points of recognized leadership in the international… [Read more…]
New home page: ndhct.com Navigator of the north and celebrator of the south, wondering. Between my home land of proud young South Africa and engaging in aging Northern Europe, I find synergies of youth working together in countless world-changing ways, planting new seeds of global community, tending to the Work that needs to be done.… [Read more…]
September 6, 2011
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